Rubik's Cube fable
"Outstanding Young Art Stars of guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" series of exhibitions
(FY 2020)
CUBE
GBA Outstanding Young Artists Series Exhibiton（2020）
Duration|2020.10.04-2020.12.20
Duration_4th. Oct.2020-20th.Dec.2020
The organizer | to the art museum
Host_Zhi Art Museum
The production | is more than art
Producer_Hezhi Art
Academic host | Zhang Xinying
Academic Host_Zhang Xinying
Curatorial | is more than art
Curation_Hezhi Art
The | of execution is more than art
Execution_Hezhi Art
Participating artists
01 Team (Liang Chainxi, Chen Rongbin), Cai Jian, Ding Shilun, Li Hongcheng,
Li Jiaxin, Li Yan, Liao Weijing, Liang Jiaxin, Lin Haidong, Lv Yuecheng,
Tan Ganquan, Wang Peisheng, Wu Chenbo, Xiao Haisheng, Xie Shaoya, Zhuo Xiong
Artists_
01 Team / Cai Jian / Ding Shilun / Li Hongcheng /
Li Jiaxin / Li Yan / Liao Weijing / Liang Jiaxin /
Lin Haidong / Lv Yuecheng/Tan Ganquan / Wang Peisheng /
Wu Chenbo / Xiao Haisheng / Xie Shaoya / Zhuo Xiong
Curatorial assistant | Wang Xuebing
Curation Assistance_Wang Xuebing
Visual design | Q SLASH
Visual Design_Q SLASH
Academic support for art healing |
Mental Health Education Counseling Center of Sun Yat-sen University
Special Support_
SYSU Mental Health Education&Counseling Center
Liao Weijing and Liang Jiaxin participated in the exhibition to promote |
A tree ARBRE
Liao Weijing / Liang Jiaxin Art Work Introduce_
Arbre Art Center
Address| Shenzhen Bao'an District Song'an Road to science and technology innovation park to the art museum
Address_Zhi Art Museum, Quanzhi Technology Park,
Song an Rd, Bao an District, Shenzhen.
Curatorial Foreword
Preface
"Rubik's Cube Fables" is the second exhibition in the series of "Outstanding Young Art Stars of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" curated by us, which presents the representative works of 17 outstanding "millennials" artists in the Greater Bay Area. In the 2019 "Into a New Era" first series of outstanding young artists in the Greater Bay Area, he not only interpreted the new era through the time logic of "urban memory - from 2G to 5G - digital future", but also the focus of the 2020 "Rubik's Cube Fable" was on the spatial dimension, metaphorizing the compound, interconnectedness and composition of the new era as the physical dimension.
After half a year of collection and screening, we have integrated the works of the participating artists into the six colors of the Rubik's Cube according to their spiritual connotations - "red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and white", and composed six different "Rubik's Cube Fables": 1█ Dopamine Fast Food (Aphrodite's Red), 2█ Materialism Trap (Hermes Orange), 3█ ID Narcissism (Naxos Yellow), 4█ Naturalism and New Equilibrium (Onomia's Green), 5█ Technology (Promethean Blue), 6█ The Invisible Abyss (White of Sisyphus). In summary, the "Rubik's Cube Fable" is a survival assumption of contemporary and future tenses. Nothing can stop the high-dimensional evolution of human beings in the information age, and the rapid progress of technology has permanently changed the structure of human knowledge, time and space perception, emotional scale, consumption habits, value standards and self-perception, and we have become completely different people from the past. We are living in a faster and more violent era, fast enough, smart enough but more nihilistic, divided and controlled. Every day, our various electronic devices are actively or passively "sharing" and "backing up" all their information to the cloud, where there are more perfect ID-like egos that we "perform" on social networks such as circle of friends and Instagram, and the composite composition of virtual and real worlds is making everyone's head link to the cloud that cannot be easily cut the data line has become a new puppet thread. What controls us? What are we trying to control? Have we surpassed our former selves? Have we become "better human beings"? In the midst of materialism, consumer frenzy, the carnival of marquee traffic fragments, there is an invisible abyss of silence around us, where forgotten ideals, sacred beliefs, pure love, affectionate tragedies are shelved... Those things that we once regarded as treasures of the mine. What the "Rubik's Cube Fable" attempts to write and explore is the ontology of the zeitgeist of multi-color, interconnection, high-speed change, loss of control and control.
“Cube” is the second exhibition of GBA Outstanding Young Artists Series Exhibition. Seventeen young artist from Greater Bay Area participate in the event. In the first exhibition in 2019, HeZhi Art present “Entering a new era” as the theme to interpret the city’s memory of development. In 2020, we aimed at presenting the complexity, connectivity and construction in modern days by the metaphor of cube.
After evaluation, we classify and divide the artwork into six group by their theme, “Rouge, Orange, Apricot, Green, Sapphire and White”, redefining six side of the cube: 1. Instant Dopamine (Aphrodite-Rouge), 2,
Consumerism Traps (Hermes-Orange), 3, Digitized Autophilia (Narcissus-Apricot), 4,Naturalism and Avant-Balance (Eunomia-Green), 5, Peeping Machine (Prometheus-Sapphire), 6, Invisible Abyss (Sisyphus-White). From the above, “Cube”is a definition about the hybrid of present tense and future tense, a testimony of existence.
Nothing can stop human beings’ high-dimensional evolution in the information age. The rapid advance of technology has permanently changed human knowledge structure, temporal and spatial perception, emotional scale, consumption habits, value standards and self-awareness. We have become completely different people from the past. We are living in a faster and more violent era, fast enough, smart enough but more nihilistic, divided and controlled. Every day, our various electronic devices are actively or passively "sharing" and "backing up" all ourselves’ information to the cloud. There are more perfect ID selves that we "perform" on social networks such as WeChat, Instagram, etc. The composite composition of the virtual and real world is making the data line that cannot be easily cut off the cloud connected to everyone's head has become a new puppet thread. What is controlling us? What are we trying to control? Have we surpassed our past selves? Have we become "better humans"? In the carnival of materialism, consumer frenzy, and traffic fragments like revolving lanterns, there is an invisible abyss of silence around us. There are forgotten ideals, sacred beliefs, pure love, affectionate tragedies... those that we once regarded as mine treasures. What "The Cube" is trying to profile and explore is the spirit of this multi-color, diversified, interconnected, fast-changing, out-of-control, and controlled spirit of the times.
Rubik's Cube Fable · The red of Aphrodite
Aphrodite-Red
Dopamine Quick Food
Instant Dopamine
"Aphrodite, the embodiment of love and beauty." In this unit we discuss that in the commercial era of dopamine massage,
Nothing can't be done quickly – to be beautiful, to be smart, to be handsome, to be happy. ”
Aphrodite, the god of love and beauty. We discuss the rapid raise of dopamine in this era of entertainment, there’s nothing that cannot be made in instant: Pretty face, Smart ass, happiness and thrills.
Xiao Haisheng "I Am the Miracle Medicine" 93*93cm x10 Wood, Ceramics 2020
Rubik's Cube Fable · The Orange of Hermes
Hermes-Orange
The Materialistic Trap
Consumerism Traps
"Hermes was the god of commerce in Greek mythology,
Meanwhile, Hermes Orange is a pun, it's also hermes Orange.
Hermes also has a name, Mercury in Roman mythology.
This module we discuss,
How many consumerist nets are we caught in on a daily basis?
What is our situation in surviving in the net? ”
Hermes is the god of commerce in Greek Myth, at the same time, a popular high-class brand.
He is also known as Mercury in Rome Myth. How many consumerism
traps do we walk pass each day? How do we survive in them is the point of discussion here.
Li Jiaxin, "Looking at Yourself", 100*120cm, new media installation,
Acrylic, steering gear, alloy, Raspberry Pi, camera, etc., 2020
Yan Li, "Lost", interactive installation, variable size, frosted PVC, led lights, sensors, 2020
Wu Chenbo, "Releasing Mercury", video, 3'33'', 2020
Rubik's Cube Fable · The Yellow of Naxos
Narcissus-Apricot
ID narcissism
Digitized Autophilia
Naxos indulged in the self-reflection of the water and eventually turned into a daffodil.
Contemporary humans who have lived in the circle of friends and Instagram for too long,
Has long been 'evolved' into an online ID, living a virtual cloud life,
Is self-indulgence in a social mask just a self-deception? ”
Narcissus was obsessed with his own shadow till the very day he died.
Here we want to discuss about people who sink themselves in social media.
They’ve evolved into a new digitized species,
grew a fixation to their perfect image online, isn’t it a total self-deceit?
Liao Weijing, < Overgrown >, 3 min 11s, Digital Color Animation, 2019
The Last Supper, 105X135cm Oil on canvas, 2020
Xie Shaoya, "Skin Bag" series, 120x150cm, acrylic on canvas, 2020
Rubik's Cube Fable · Onomia's Green
Eunomia-Green
Naturalism and a new balance
Naturalism and Avant-Balance
"Onomiah rules over the natural order and at the same time is the law of justice,
Without war, death and plague, humanity would not have feared nature.
'Buddhist middle-aged and young people' and 'greasy young and middle-aged' are also products of the times,
In this unit we discuss the ecological balance of naturalism and the social balance of inner order. ”
Eunomia is in charge of the natural order, but also law and justice.
If there were no wars, deaths and plagues, humans would not awe of nature.
The ‘Buddhism Young and Middle-aged’ and the ‘Greasy Young and Middle-aged’ are also products of the times. In this unit, we discuss the ecological balance of naturalism and the social balance of inner order.
Jian Cai, Horizontal series, 460x110cm, acrylic on canvas, 2020
Ding Shilun, Sculpture No. 1 - Eagle and Grass, 90x120cm, oil on canvas and resin materials, 2019
Lv Yuecheng, "Human Snail", 80*80*100cm
Sculpture, Clay, Metal, Glass, etc., 2020
Lin Haidong, "The Mist" series, 20*30cm
Acrylic on canvas, 2020
Li Hongcheng, "Three Points into the Wood" series, 120*150cm
Rice paper, Pu'er tea, 2020
Rubik's Cube Fable · The Blue of Prometheus
Prometheus-Sapphire
Snooping on technology
Peeping Machine
"Stealing flames for human civilization, the bound Prometheus could never have imagined
Today's pervasive technological advances have tied humans to countless large and small displays and virtual clouds.
In this module we discuss the nihilism, division, and control of ourselves in the information age. ”
Stealing flames for human civilization,
it is impossible for the bound Prometheus to imagine that today's pervasive technological advancement binds mankind to countless large and small displays and virtual clouds.
In this unit we discuss our emptiness, division and control in the information age.
Tan Ganquan, Privacy Sonata, 170x170x45cm, new media installation,
Metal, Raspberry Pi (electronics), photosensitive resin 3D printing, homemade sounder, 2020
Peisheng Wang, Dyson Ball, Video, 2'55'', 2020
01 Panel, Out of Control, Devices, Electronics, Copper Wire, LED Lights, 2018
Panel 01, Tower of Babel, Video, 5'24'', 2015
Rubik's Cube Fable · White of Sisyphus
Sisyphus-White
The invisible abyss
Invisible Abyss
"In this unit we discuss fate. Sisyphus's same fate. But that is brave and also happy. ”
In this unit we discuss fate. Sisyphus's fate, but it was brave and beatific.
Liang Jiaxin, Falling, Digital Color Imaging, 1'38'' , 2018